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Tanglewood

The Boston Symphony Chamber Players give their annual Tanglewood
performances on Thursday, July 5, joined in Ozawa Hall by
distinguished Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder for Mozart's
Quintet in E-flat for piano and winds, K.452, and Schumann's
exuberant Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44, one of the masterpieces
of the genre. The program also includes Bernstein's Variations on
an Octatonic Scale, for flute and cello, one of his last
compositions, which received its world premiere at Tanglewood in
1995; and Moisey Weinberg's Sonata for solo double bass, Op.
108.

Featured Performers
& Ensembles

One of today's legendary performers, Rudolf Buchbinder has appeared
in concert all over the world with renowned orchestras and
conductors for more than 50 years. For his 70th birthday in the
2016/17 season, he was celebrated in such venues as the Carnegie
Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Musikverein in Vienna
and the Berlin Philharmonie. Other highlights of this anniversary
season were concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra led by
Christian Thielemann and tours with the Staatskapelle Dresden and
the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. At the invitation of Mariss
Jansons, Rudolf Buchbinder served as Artist in Residence with the
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra as well as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra named him an
Honorary Member. The 2017/18 sees his return to the Staatskapelle
Dresden, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Filarmónica della
Scala, among others, and to the Boston Symphony Orchestra led by
Andris Nelsons.

Mr. Buchbinder's repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary
music. He has documented this broad artistic range with more than
100 recordings, many of which have won awards. His readings of the
works of Beethoven, in particular, have set new standards. With his
cyclic performances of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas, he has
contributed significantly to the development of the performance
history of these works. To date, he has performed this cycle more
than 50 times in cities including Berlin, Beijing, Buenos Aires,
Dresden, Istanbul, Milan, Munich, Shanghai, St. Petersburg, Vienna,
and Zurich. In 2014, he became the first pianist to perform all
Beethoven sonatas during one summer season at the Salzburg
Festival. The Salzburg cycle was recorded live and released on DVD.
A live recording of Brahms' two piano concertos with the Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra and Zubin Mehta was released on DVD and CD
in 2016.

Mr. Buchbinder's readings are based on meticulous study of source
material. An avid collector of historic scores, he owns 39 complete
editions of Beethoven's piano sonatas. Furthermore, his library
contains an extensive collection of first prints, original editions
and copies of Brahms' two original piano concerto scores.

Rudolf Buchbinder has been the artistic director of the Grafenegg
Festival since its founding in 2007. Under his leadership, it has
developed into one of Europe's foremost festivals for orchestral
music.
So far, Mr. Buchbinder has published two books: his autobiography
"Da Capo", as well as "My Beethoven - Life With the Master". For
further information please visit www.buchbinder.net.

Malcolm Lowe joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as
concertmaster in 1984, becoming the tenth concertmaster in the
orchestra's history and only its third since 1920. As
concertmaster, he also performs with the Boston Symphony Chamber
Players. Mr. Lowe is equally at home as an orchestral player,
chamber musician, solo recitalist, and teacher. He appears
frequently as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at
Symphony Hall and Tanglewood and he has returned many times to his
native Canada for guest appearances as a soloist with the Toronto
and Montreal Symphony Orchestras and the National Arts Centre
Orchestra in Ottawa.

Mr. Lowe is a faculty member at the Tanglewood Music Center, New
England Conservatory, and Boston University. Prior to his Boston
appointment, he was concertmaster of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra.
The recipient of many awards, he was one of the top laureate
winners in the 1979 Montreal International Violin Competition. Born
to musical parents - his father was a violinist and his mother a
vocalist - on a farm in Hamiota, Manitoba, Mr. Lowe moved with his
family to Regina, Saskatchewan at the age of nine. There he studied
at the Regina Conservatory of Music with Howard Leyton-Brown,
former concertmaster of the London Philharmonic. He later studied
with Ivan Galamian at the Meadowmount School of Music and at the
Curtis Institute of Music. Mr. Lowe also studied violin with Sally
Thomas and Jaime Laredo and was greatly influenced by Josef
Gingold, Felix Galimir, Alexander Schneider, and Jascha
Brodsky.

Haldan Martinson made his solo debut with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic in 1990 and made his national television debut in 1988
performing on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. Mr. Martinson has
soloed with many other orchestras, including the Waterloo-Cedar
Falls Symphony Orchestra, the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra and
the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Martinson is the recipient of
numerous prizes, scholarships, and awards including the Spotlight
Award of the Los Angeles Music Center. He has participated in the
chamber music festivals of Ravinia, Taos, Santa Fe, and La Jolla.
From 1996 to 1998 he was a member of the Metamorphosen Chamber
Ensemble.

Mr. Martinson graduated with a B.A. in Music from Yale College
(1994), where he was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize, one of the
most prestigious awards granted by the university. He was
concertmaster of the Yale Symphony Orchestra from 1991 to 1994. Mr.
Martinson received a Master of Music degree from New England
Conservatory (1997). His former teachers have included Robert
Lipsett, Endré Granat, David Nadien, Aaron Rosand, and James
Buswell.

Mr. Martinson is also a prize-winning composer whose works for
string ensemble have been featured frequently in concert. One of
Mr. Martinson's works, Dance of the Trolls for string orchestra,
was commissioned by the Crossroads Chamber Orchestra in 1988 and
has been performed throughout Southern California.

As principal second violin of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr.
Martinson is also a member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players.
He joined the orchestra as a section violinist in November 1998 and
was appointed to his current position in the summer of 2000. From
1998-2002 he was a member of the critically acclaimed Hawthorne
String Quartet.

Steven Ansell joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as principal
viola in September 1996, occupying the Charles S. Dana chair,
having already appeared with the BSO in Symphony Hall as guest
principal viola. A native of Seattle, he also remains a member of
the acclaimed Muir String Quartet, which he co-founded in 1979, and
with which he has toured extensively throughout the world. A
graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with
Michael Tree and Karen Tuttle, Mr. Ansell was named professor of
viola at the University of Houston at twenty-one and became
assistant principal viola of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
under André Previn at twenty-three. As a recording artist he has
received two Grand Prix du Disque awards and a Gramophone
magazine award for Best Chamber Music Recording of the Year. He has
appeared on PBS's "In Performance at the White House," has
participated in the Tanglewood, Marlboro, Schleswig-Holstein,
Newport, Blossom, Spoleto, and Snowbird music festivals, and
premiered Ezra Laderman's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra with the
Berkshires Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Ansell teaches at the Boston
University College of Fine Arts. As principal viola of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, he is also a member of the Boston Symphony
Chamber Players.

BSO principal bass Edwin Barker has concertized in North
America, Europe, and the Far East. He has performed and recorded
with the BSO, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and the
contemporary music ensemble Collage, and is a frequent guest
performer with the Boston Chamber Music Society. Mr. Barker gave
the world premieres of James Yannatos' Concerto for Contrabass and
Chamber Orchestra (which was written especially for him) and of
Theodore Antoniou's Concertino for Contrabass and Chamber
Orchestra; he was the featured soloist in the New England premiere
of Gunther Schuller's Concerto for Double Bass and Chamber
Orchestra. Mr. Barker graduated with honors in 1976 from the New
England Conservatory, where he studied double bass with Henry
Portnoi. That same year, at age twenty-two, while a member of the
Chicago Symphony, he was appointed principal double bass of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra. His other double bass teachers included
Peter Mercurio, Richard Stephan, Angelo LaMariana, and David
Perleman. Mr. Barker inaugurated the BSO's 100th Anniversary Season
with performances of Koussevitzky's Bass Concerto; other solo
engagements have included appearances at Seiji Ozawa Hall, Carnegie
Recital Hall, and major universities and conferences throughout the
world, as well as concerto performances with the Boston Classical
Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston and Europe.
In July 1995 he was chosen by the late Sir Georg Solti to lead the
bass section of the United Nations' "Musicians of the World," an
orchestra made up of prominent musicians from the world's finest
orchestras. Mr. Barker is an associate professor at the Boston
University College of Fine Arts, where he teaches double bass,
orchestral techniques, and chamber music. His other major teaching
affiliations include the BSO's Tanglewood Music Center, where he is
Chairman of Instrumental and Orchestral Studies, and the National
Orchestral Institute at the University of Maryland. His solo CDs
include "Three Sonatas for Double Bass"; James Yannatos' Variations
for Solo Contrabass, and the recently released "Concerti for Double
Bass," which includes concertos by Gunther Schuller and Theodore
Antoniou.

BSO principal flutist Elizabeth Rowe joined the Boston Symphony
Orchestra in 2004 and holds the Walter Piston Principal Flute
Chair. Prior to joining the BSO, Ms. Rowe held titled positions
with the orchestras of Fort Wayne, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.
Regularly featured in front of the orchestra, she has been soloist
with the BSO in Elliott Carter's Flute Concerto (including its
American premiere performances under James Levine in February 2010,
followed by later performances in Boston and San Francisco); the
Ligeti Double Concerto for flute and oboe with Christoph von
Dohnányi conducting and BSO principal oboe John Ferrillo; Gabriela
Lena Frank's Illapa, Tone Poem for Flute and Orchestra,
with Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducting; Mozart's G major flute
concerto, K.313, with which she made her first BSO appearance as a
concerto soloist in August 2008, under André Previn's direction at
Tanglewood; Frank Martin's Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments,
Timpani, Percussion, and Strings in October 2012; Bach's
Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 5 and 2 at Tanglewood in 2012
and 2013, respectively; Mozart's C major concerto for flute and
harp in 2016 in Boston and at Tanglewood, with BSO principal harp
Jessica Zhou; and, most recently, Leonard Bernstein's
Ḥalil in September 2017, in the BSO's season-opening
all-Bernstein program with Andris Nelsons conducting. In November
2017, she and Ms. Zhou perform Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp
with Andris Nelsons and the BSO during the orchestra's tour that
month to Japan. Noted for her insightful teaching, Ms. Rowe
attracts flute students from around the country to her lessons and
master classes. She works regularly with students at the New
England Conservatory and the Tanglewood Music Center and is a
frequent guest artist at the New World Symphony. She previously
taught at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and University of
Maryland. A member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, she can
be heard in a wide variety of chamber works throughout the season
at NEC's Jordan Hall and in several recordings. Elizabeth Rowe grew
up in Eugene, Oregon. She received her bachelor of music degree
from the University of Southern California, where she was a Trustee
Scholar and a student of Jim Walker, former principal flute of the
Los Angeles Philharmonic. Ms. Rowe's connection to the Boston
Symphony Orchestra dates back to the summer of 1996, when she was a
Tanglewood Music Center Fellow and performed as principal flute
under Seiji Ozawa's direction in the TMC production of Benjamin
Britten's Peter Grimes that marked the fiftieth
anniversary of the opera's 1946 American premiere at
Tanglewood.

John Ferrillo joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as principal
oboe at the start of the 2001 Tanglewood season, having appeared
with the orchestra several times as a guest performer in previous
seasons. From 1986 to 2001 he was principal oboe of the
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Mr. Ferrillo grew up in Bedford,
Massachusetts, and played in the Greater Boston Youth Symphony
Orchestra. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute, where he
studied with John deLancie and received his diploma and Artist's
certificate. He also studied with John Mack at the Blossom Festival
and has participated in the Marlboro, Craftsbury, and
Monadnock festivals. Prior to his appointment at the Metropolitan
Opera, Mr. Ferrillo was second oboe of the San Francisco Symphony,
and was a faculty member at Illinois State University and West
Virginia State University. A former faculty member of the
Mannes School of Music and Juilliard School of Music in New York
City, he has taught and performed at the Aspen and Waterloo
festivals and currently serves on the faculty of the New England
Conservatory, Boston University, and the Boston University
Tanglewood Institute.

William R. Hudgins was appointed principal clarinetist of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra by Seiji Ozawa in 1994, occupying the Ann
S.M. Banks chair, having joined the orchestra two years earlier. He
has been heard as a soloist with the BSO on numerous occasions,
including performances of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, Copland's
Clarinet Concerto, Bruch's Double Concerto for Clarinet and Viola,
Frank Martin's Concerto for Seven Winds, Timpani, Percussion, and
String Orchestra, and, for the opening of the BSO's 2014-15 season,
Mozart's Sinfonia concertante in E-flat, K.297b. As a
member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, he can be heard on
their BSO Classics CDs of Brahms and Dvořák serenades (the
ensemble's most recent release); the Grammy-nominated "Profanes et
Sacrées: 20th-Century French Chamber Music"; "Plain Song, Fantastic
Dances" (in music of Gandolfi, Foss, and Golijov), and the
Grammy-nominated "Mozart Chamber Music for Strings and Winds" (in
Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K.581), as well as a
Grammy-nominated Arabesque recording of Hindemith's Quartet for
Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano. Recent appearances outside of
the Boston Symphony Orchestra include orchestral performances and
recordings with the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Matsumoto, Japan, and
the Mito Chamber Orchestra in Mito, Japan, both under the direction
of Seiji Ozawa; chamber music at the Rockport Chamber Music
Festival, and recitals and master classes at various universities
and around the United States. Before joining the BSO, Mr. Hudgins
served as principal clarinetist and soloist with the Orquesta
Sinfonica Municipal in Caracas, Venezuela, and the Charleston
Symphony Orchestra in South Carolina. He was heard for six seasons
as a member of both the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Charleston,
South Carolina, and Il Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy. He
also participated as a Fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, where
he won the C.D. Jackson Award for outstanding performance. Mr.
Hudgins received his bachelor's degree from the Boston University
School for the Arts, studying with former BSO principal clarinetist
Harold Wright.

Richard Svoboda has been the principal bassoonist of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Boston Symphony Chamber
Players since 1989; as the BSO's principal bassoon he occupies the
Edward A. Taft Chair, endowed in perpetuity. Mr. Svoboda is
currently on the faculties of the New England Conservatory of
Music, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Sarasota Music
Festival, and has given master classes throughout the world. Prior
to his BSO appointment, he performed for ten seasons as principal
bassoonist of the Jacksonville Symphony.

Mr. Svoboda is an active chamber music collaborator, orchestral
soloist, and recitalist. Among his solo appearances with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra have been performances of John Williams's
bassoon concerto Five Sacred Trees with the composer
conducting and Weber's Concerto for Bassoon under the baton of
Seiji Ozawa. In November 2013 he is soloist in the world premiere
of Marc Neikrug's BSO-commissioned Concerto for Bassoon and
Orchestra with R afael Frühbeck de Burgos on the podium. In 2007 he
premiered Michael Gandolfi's Concerto for Bassoon, and in 2011,
along with his daughter, clarinetist Erin Svoboda, he premiered
Gandolfi's Concerto for Clarinet and Bassoon, both times
collaborating with Yoichi Udagawa and the Melrose Symphony
Orchestra.

Richard Svoboda has to his credit over thirty recordings with
the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Chamber Players,
as well as the soundtracks to Schindler's List and
Saving Private Ryan. His recording of Michael Gandolfi's
Concerto for Bassoon with Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra
Project was a May 2013 release, and two CDs of solo bassoon
repertoire are in various stages of completion. "Le Phénix,
18th-Century French Music for Bassoon," including music of
Boismortier, Corrette, and Devienne, was released in November 2013,
and a CD of early 20th-century European music is in the editing
stage.

Mr. Svoboda is married and is the extremely proud father of four
daughters. He and his family reside in Melrose. For further
information, please visit RichardSvoboda.com.

James Sommerville became principal horn of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra in 1998, occupying the Helen Sagoff Slosberg/Edna S.
Kalman Chair. As principal horn, he is also a member of the Boston
Symphony Chamber Players. Mr. Sommerville is also music director of
the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. Winner of the highest prizes
at the Munich, Toulon, and CBC competitions, he has pursued a solo
career spanning thirty years and has made critically acclaimed
appearances with major orchestras throughout North America and
Europe. His disc of the Mozart horn concertos with the CBC
Vancouver Orchestra won the JUNO Award for Best Classical Recording
in Canada. Other award-winning CBC recordings include Britten's
Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings and Britten's Canticle. He
has recorded chamber music for Deutsche Grammophon, Telarc, CBC,
Summit, Marquis, and BSO Classics. Mr. Sommerville has been a
member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony
Orchestra, the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, and Symphony Nova
Scotia, and was acting solo horn of the Chamber Orchestra of
Europe. He has toured and recorded extensively as an orchestral
player, is heard regularly on the CBC network, and has recorded all
of the standard solo horn repertoire for broadcast. As a guest
artist and faculty member, he has performed at chamber music
festivals worldwide. Solo performances have included the world
premiere of Christos Hatzis's Winter Solstice; the North American
premiere of Ligeti's Hamburg Concerto with the BSO; John
Williams's Horn Concerto; the world premiere of Elliott Carter's
Horn Concerto, commissioned for him by the BSO; and the world
premiere of Osvaldo Golijov's Sign of the Leviathan, a TMC
75th-anniversary commission, with the Tanglewood Music Center
Orchestra. Mr. Sommerville has himself commissioned and premiered a
great deal of music by young composers, including works ranging
from solo horn to full orchestra. Other solo appearances with the
BSO have included Richard Strauss's Horn Concerto No. 1, Britten's
Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, Frank Martin's Concerto for
Seven Wind Instruments, Timpani, Percussion, and String Orchestra,
Mozart's Horn Concertos 1 and 2 (the latter on forty-eight hours'
notice with Bernard Haitink conducting), Bach's
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, and Mozart's Sinfonia
concertante in E-flat for winds, K.297b. As a conductor, Mr.
Sommerville has appeared with many professional orchestras and
ensembles throughout Canada and the U.S.